March 24, 2009

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During President Obama's second East Room news conference, he took questions from 13 reporters over about an hour -- that's the same as during his first presser on Feb. 9.

But in quite a departure from the first presser -- and White House protocol -- Obama skipped over the nation's top newspapers. Indeed, there were no questions from the NY Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal or USA Today. That might not sit well with the already insecure newspaper industry.

In exchange, Obama opened things up to a wider variety of outlets, including Spanish-language television, a military news outlet, and black-oriented media. It's another example of the White House going over the typical Washington press corps "filter."

It was nice to see Politico get a question in. But I think Obama should skip the networks if he skips anyone -- ABC, CBS and NBC. Those are the places where good ideas go to die, and those are the places that try to create fake drama about everything.

Another scripted news conference, big screen TV rather than a teleprompter, ignoring and not answering the question and going off in a different direction and saying nothing new. Seems like he's just smiling and enjoying himself and not really facing the reality of a economic collapse, but just hoping everyone loves him.

I am not at all surprised. Obama has been taking a shellacking from the WSJ lately for his ?non-plan? of handling the banking crisis. Only after the market lost 30% of its value did Obama and Geithner FINALLY get it together to propose a workable plan.
I guess we should be glad that he didn?t kick out the dissenting newspapers from the conference to ?make room for others? like he did with his campaign jet.

Another great recital.......and damn that evil press corps for making the poor prez have to answer yet again why he's bankrupting our sovereignty. Did they forget that 'he won', and so he can run roughshod over the whole shebang, it's his right!! His ego is a dangerous thing. How many good families will he destroy in his vanity, that's the question!?

I wonder if any reporters picked up on Obama's double talk. For instance Health Care. Supposedly the Health Care plan is a huge expenditure to guarantee americans health care.
But tonight it became a cost cutting plan to get the country out of deficit spending on Obama's Big MOnitor.
You don't believe me? read the speech.
As for the newspapers, the LA times, Post, and NYT were and are big Obama backers. They'll make exuses for him, I'm sure.
Anyway they're on the rocks old media. They should check out the was Lenin acted Russia once the Bolshovies were in power and began to "Govern" Russia.

I absolutely love reading the comment sections on Politico. It's where the right-wing conservative nutties go to die. It's like a whole different world where Reagan is still alive and kicking...and Dubya is ranked right up there with George Washington.
The entertainment value is off da hook (as Great Leader Steele, would say)!

"Interesting that Univision and Ebony got questions verus the hard news people!
Posted By: jls19401 | March 24, 2009 at 09:32 PM"
Just because their audiences aren't composed of WASPs, they're not "hard news?" The Univision reporter asked a question about the administration's response to the war going on along the Mexican border, and the Ebony reporter asked a question about homeless families with children. I detect no softball or fluff in either question. What, exactly, do you think "hard news" is?

Univision and Ebony are targeted towards over 25% of the population. They should absolutely be called on. Plus border issues are going to be a major issue for the next decade, so it makes sense to select a hispanic outlet.

It's interesting that at the same time Obama is ignoring print, his fellow libs are doing everything in their power to keep the papers afloat. Gotta keep the avenue for liberal bias open! Talk about a fairness doctrine - what about one for newspapers.

The President did a great job. We finally have a President who's smart and can actually take questions and explain clearly the issues to the American people. Forget the Pundits, they are yesterday's news.
Media is all about the ratings.
Ed Henry made a fool of himself as usual hungry to get the story and make news. CNN should be ashamed of itself for having such inexperienced reporting at the White House. He was the weakest reporter of all

I see we're gonna bail out newspapers! The newspaper revitalization act! What about the vinyl record revitalization act! Think of all those poor people that lost their jobs when they stopped making records. Stop propping up failed businesses! Holy Cow!

Most transparent President eva: SOURCE: Reporters were told in advance if president was going to call on them. Senior Administration Officials notified reporters from Stars & Stripes, Univision and other news outlets that they should have question ready. Several reporters moved up in assigned seats as result...

Status quo for Obama. A lot of rhetorick and NO substance. We have what seems like an arrogant teenage boy running the country: Some one who only knows how to BS his way out of serious situations. Was he a used car salesmen in a previous life?

he has identified and is using new media to advantage --- Tonight Show, Ed Henry, Town Meetings. Who got to ask questions tonight seems a little inside baseball to me, but CNN/MSNBC, Politico, Ebony, Univision are the emerging media that reach beyond the NY/DC political junkies.

Yawn......is it over? Boring can be a stealthy weapon. While he talks on and on and on....Who was I upset with? Oh! I remember, the Whitehoue and Congress. When he talks my eyes glaze over, my jaw slackens and I see his lips move but I don't know what he's saying. All part of the plan I suppose..... We are all so stupid!

Yawn......is it over? Boring can be a stealthy weapon. While he talks on and on and on....Who was I upset with? Oh! I remember, the Whitehoue and Congress. When he talks my eyes glaze over, my jaw slackens and I see his lips move but I don't know what he's saying. All part of the plan I suppose..... We are all so stupid!

This sounds a little too inside baseball for me. Emerging media --- Ebony, MSNBC/CNN, Univision, Politico got to ask questions ; these channels reach past the NY/DC political junkies, just as Obama was hitting the Tonight Show, Ed Shultz, and Town Meetings. Obama has identified the "new dominant"media, just as Reagan and FDR did.

The word and actions are not syncing. O'B stop lying! Stop renemaing things - you are spending like Imelda Marcos in a shoe store - just say it if you want! Stop lecturing everyone else! EARTH TO OBAMA: YOU ARE NOT GOD! Grow Up! You are a Kid with a new toy! The only difference is that we and our children and grand children are going to pay for your toys!

Why aren't these comments immediately removed like the other Politico posts? Amazing the control this new transparent administration has on the media.
Politico, you know that after a debacle news confab like we just had. The puppet string pullers run to the wires to read what the news say's. That how they make policy.
Post exactly how the peoples comments just vanish.

Obama did the right thing by giving traditionally excluded news mediums more opportunities. The idea that NY Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal or USA Today are somehow "hard news" is a huge joke. These are the same news papers that did not ask the hard questions enough or persistently after september 11th, before the Iraq war, and during the booming real estate market. Why? Because they seem to be the NEWS PAPERS OF THE ESTABLISHMENT rather than a medium of truth to the public. Given the tough times this great country is faced with as a result of decades of negligence, it is time for change. When you are changing habits of the past, why would you use the same messengers that keep going to the same people? Most people who are sick of "business as usual" don't even read those news papers anymore. Part of reaching out to the silent majority of America is to reach out to different news outlets. I think it was incredibly irresponsible of the previous presidents to ignore smaller, niche and demogrophically specific mediums of news in the past. THey only catered to the "establishment" news papers and we already know what the incompetent outcomes establishment achieved. Time for a different approach. And Obama deserves credit for the guts to do someothing different. People voted for Obama to bring change, and when he brings change the puppies of the establishment start barking like mad. Why? Do they want the president to go contrary to his message of change? Do they want the presient to go against his mandate for change - a mandate handed to him by the American people?

The fact that this idiot's approval ratings are where they are proves that we truly are a country of ignorant morons. I read this article a few minutes ago and thought this was interesting:
"THE CLAIM: Responding to Republican critics in Congress who say his proposed budget carries an irresponsible deficit, Obama said, "I suspect that some of those Republican critics have a short memory, because, as I recall, I'm inheriting a $1.3 trillion deficit, annual deficit, from them."
FACT: Obama inherited a whopper of a deficit, much of it due to policies and spending led by Republican President George W. Bush. But the Congress, which authorizes spending and is not blameless in driving up deficits, was controlled by Democrats in the last two years of Bush's presidency."

Dumbocrats, don't even start calling Republicans haters and whatever else your small, empty minds come up with. If McCain had beaten the liar, I'm sure you'd be on here making these same kind of comments.

Did you notice in his BIG speach, how 90% of the population was getting a tax cut and we will be increasing the deficit by 2 trillion dollars. Anyone believes that--the "Fool Killer" is gonna get you. But some do. Maybe they have a different kind of calculator?

I think we are all missing the big picture here! No, wait, never mind, it was on a plasma in the back of the room. I think he needs to "extend his federal powers" and find out what happened to his teleprompters. I guess it might be safe to assume that they are just worn out from over use and the Chi-coms are asking for a real form of payment before delivery?

Can anyone tell us if he will eventually allow us to examine his real birth certificate, his college records, his medical records and his passports? Leave it to stupid Americans to elect a man who wasn't even born in the United States. By the way, remembering John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan when they gave a news conference, Obama couldn't even, excuse the expression, shine their shoes.

BBB: You forget that from 2000-2006 the Republican Congress spent money like drunken sailors, while the Republican president didn't veto one single spending bill!
You also forgot that in 1993 every Republican voted against Clinton's budget because it raised taxes on the wealthiest, claiming it would cause a huge recession. Instead we got eight years of widely-shared prosperity. We also went from huge Republican deficits to a budget surplus in 2000.
On the economy Republicans have NO credibility, NO record, NO plan.

DDD: 2000-first half of 2002, the U.S. was not running a deficit. It isn't until after 9-11-02 that you will see the country starting to run deficits. Those extra costs to the U.S. budget most likely can be attributed to the increase of cost of war and trying to jump-start the economy again from the 9-11 attacks.
The difference between Bush's deficits and Obama's deficits is that Obama is trying to expand government for liberal social agendas to "spread the wealth around." His words.
When republicans hear "spread the wealth around" they know that means socialism. And socialism means a contracting global and domestic economy, which actually means less money for everybody to go around. Look around, it has already started: protectionism is up and global marketplace is down. Can it get any clearer for the libs?
This chart keeps it simple: russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008125.html

You rightwads are sick and stupid.
We know you all are just going itchy-squirrely because this president is so smart.
As you morons reveal yourselves, you become lesser and lesser.
Pathetic little pipsqueaks! I will rejoice when you Repukes will fit in a Yugo....and it won't be long.

a guy from ebony magazine (?!)asks barack how he feels about the homeless...a lady asks him to "speak to us about race".. and barack reads his pat answers from a giant 'hidden' teleprompter at the back of the room while rahm nods and giggles with pride.. and for this the networks had to re-schedule their programming ??

((( "If McCain had beaten Obama, I'm sure you'd be on here making these same kind of comments." )))
If McCain had beaten Obama, most of us would have had to sell our computers to buy a loaf of bread by now.

((( "...barack reads his pat answers from a giant 'hidden' teleprompter at the back of the room..." )))
He only used the teleprompter for his opening remarks, you twink. Just like Reagan did:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/President_Reagan_gives_the_State_of_the_Union_Address_to_Congress_1988.jpg

ah yes... straight to the personal attacks.. typical..shoot the messenger. this wasn't a state of the union speech, it was a press conference. my gosh, even the "idiot" bush was able to speak extemperaneously.. how is it that the supposedly oh-so-intelligent barack cannot ? .. and there were an awful lot of words on the screen during the softball Q&A..gosh, i wonder what those could have been ? the barack apologists are becoming so tiresome.

Karl Rove says Obama is Arrogant again 2day on with Bull O' Reily on Fox News. "BULL" AND "ROVER" THINK THE PREZ IS AN "UPPITY NEGRO" Repugs are going back to campaign tactics, while trying to refer to the Prez as "ARROGANT", which on the Right is to somehow presume he is over his head, which of course a "Uppity Negro" would be because how could a Negro possibly govern.

The same people who are blasting Obama here are most likely the same people who praised Bush during his horrible press conferences, which goes to show the extent to which ideology has blinded people from viewing things clearly and objectively. Heck, they probably think Jindal is a better speaker than Obama!

s a history buff you might want to remember that the Democrat Party is the party of Segregation, Slavery, Jim Crow, George McGovern, separate-but-equal, hosing down students in Memphis, Selma & Little Rock! Martin Luther King Jr. was a registered Republican, like Lincoln and every other so-called Northern Agitator. Lyndon Bains Johnson (R-TX) was the man who created and signed the Civil Rights Bill in 1968, 30 years of protest will never cover up 150 years of Racism! Is Robert Byrd (D-NC) of the KKK still your Senior Senator?

Wow. Never figured a political choice into a persons I.Q. I guess conservatives get an automatic 50 point reduction which still puts me at about 120 or so. About average.
Seriously. You talk about Bush's deficit. This guy has done more to drag this country down the tubes financially in his first three months than Bush did in his eight. Bush may not have been a saint. But this guy is turning into satan.
I would love to see the abacus/slide rule/calculator they are using to calculate debt. The last time I checked overdrafting my account never got me out of debt. I believe what the Obama administration is doing can commonly be called "digging ourselves deeper into the hole".
Printing money like it's toilet paper can only do one thing to the value of the dollar. Make it go down. Not that the dollar is worth anything. Says it right on it. I.O.U. Value of the dollar goes down then countries that we have multi Trillion (yes with a capital T) dollar debts to like China are going to want to collect while the Dollar has some value.
And I hope people are paying attention to the new cry to have a global reserve currency created. This crazy spending and the inevitable inflation spike are some things China can make a convincing case against. And believe me. Removing the dollar as the reserve currency is no something that we can take likely. Nor is it something that the average person in the states will like.

This maroooon/idiot is so freakin' transparent that it is to laugh. Blah, Blah, Blah...double speak. It is obvious to the most casuel observer that this Marxist needs to resign today. We need Mitt/Sarah in the WH, not this pos-poser non citizen. Gotta go take a shower. Feels like we are all getting raped.

Typical attorney-never answer the question and head off into the sunset on a tangent. The American people need to finally stand together and DO SOMETHING about this fraud of a government starting with another tea party.

Paul "The same people who are blasting Obama here are most likely the same people who praised Bush during his horrible press conferences, which goes to show the extent to which ideology has blinded people from viewing things clearly and objectively. Heck, they probably think Jindal is a better speaker than Obama!"
Hi, Paul, I am "they". Bush was a disappointment to Cons Morons like me. Jindal is a pathetic speaker; he is just a better leader. WASPs voted heavily for Obama - my mom at 86 (WASP) is a racist - she voted FOR Obama because of the color of his skin.
I just thought I might correct some of the comments made by the intellectuals regarding us redneck Repukes.
Oh, one last comment- Obama was likened to a used car salesman. No way. Used car salesmen are some of the slickest, most articulate people you will ever encounter. AND they improvise - no teleprompters allowed.

Dave Letterman said it right, Bush the dummy should have used the teleprompter but he can't read. That's right Mr President give other news papers a chance. He should have eliminated Fox Noise. He was great the Repubs and Conservs are waking up mad yet again. Don't hate him because he is smart and brilliant.

I did not vote for Obama for the simple reason that I felt that he was unprepared for the Presidency. That said, the fact that he dumped the major papers shows some understanding of the public's huge distrust of their print media. It really isn't the time for OTJT (on the job training) but that is what is going on. People unemployed ,losing homes,feeling hopeless and our media still want the limelight. How about some REAL help for the ordinary guy/gal?? Is that too much to address?

I personally liked the news conference as lately, I have been suffering from insomnia. A good break from real news and/or the March madness. I did see that the scary looking lady was back in the front row,looking about as interested as one might expect.

How would you like to be evaluated, 60 days after starting your new job? I love America, but Americans need to step-back and give the new administration some breathing room. For once in their pathetic lives, they need to know that this will not be a "Quick Fix." If you know anyone who can fix an 8 years mess in 2 months...please inform the World! I just love it that everyone is willing to push the wagon downhill further, when we are already down. Americans -- get a grip, hold on tight, because just because you want relief fast, it is not going to happen. And the sooner Americans face reality, the sooner we can help our government try to fix this mess that WE ARE IN!

Oh people. What we have here is the extreme of both sides. The left wing dems who love everything that comes out of the presidents mouth and the right wing conservatives who think he can do no right. The people that I am scared of are the people in congress who react on a knee jerk to write laws to recoup money that they feel was unjustly handed out. We haven't even heard why the money was given out we JUST ASSUMED it was bonuses. I think that bonuses should be given to those that perform their jobs properly. However some companies have a retention program that says that if you stay with a company for a period of time you recieve a lump sum of cash. These are not tied to performance but to longevity of service to a company. I think that people are tieing the two together and don't understand the difference. The president has not even been in office a hundred days yet and the market has dropped more in those day than in the last five years. We need to look at where the president is leading us vice looking at how he delivers his "Press Conference". With the age of electronics we have grown to know more in less time and to get information out faster. We need accountablity in both the press and in Washington.

Oh yes Ebony has been doing that hard hitting investigative journalism about the crisis in the banking sector -- oh wait that was WSJ and NYTimes, Wash Post. Ebony does the stories about Michelle's toned arms

Bush never used a teleprompter at news conferences and he never prechose the reporters or received the questions before calling on them. He was smart enough to do it on his own. Barrack Hussein is afraid to face the media head on. Why? What is he hiding?

President Obama cannot solve every problem in one shot. We are in a recession the likes that noone has ever experience. He trying to do something give him at least 6 months then judge. To the newspapers you have four years you will get your chance.

Bore-ack and hack Obuma! Can't the guy just answer the question? He ignored most questions and insisted on pushing his TRILLIONS debt up the American crapper. The HUGE TELEPROMPTER was hysterical as was seeing Rham Emmanuel smirking in the sidelines. Waste of time to watch a guy who can't lead.

Someone said Hussein has brought a new tone and that he is not from Washington. Well they are right, but nobody knows where the teleprompter queen is from, he won't tell us.
The keys to becoming the leader of the free world: tall, thin, speak well, accomplish nothing in the business world, play the race card, read a teleprompter, be a community organizer, and make fun of the disabled.
I am waiting for the first state to secede, it's just a matter of time. Let the liberals die in there ignorant policies.

The left posting on here so excited about getting their "free" healthcare and energy independence are just amazing. Ask Canadians how they like socilaized healthcare and with each average families liability to pay back what he's spent so far being over $100K now, that's hardly free or affordable. My car is powered by foreign oil because he will not drill here/now. They said yes to it during campaign mode to get you freaks to vote for him and then immediately repealed it when your sin (vote) was complete. Morons!

Media in the U.S. is going through a rapid change. The driver of public opinion and hard journalism are coming from internet and TV outlets. Newspapers are cutting back and are unable to cover what they use too. That's why he is picking on more non-traditional media outlets.
Vote on how he did at: http://thepoliticus.com/content/how-did-president-do-his-second-press-conference

I have no problem with BO snubbing most of big paper, their becoming less relivent anyhow.. he can pick any reporter he wants, this is a non issue. Instead lets talk about the repetiveness, or the fact that most of us that watched couldn't stay awake!

Interesting, the only US based print paper he took a question form is the WASHINGTON TIMES, flagship of the Conservative movement and the Cons are still spewing their anti American rhetoric!!
Who needs the Taliban when we have Conservatives!

The newspaper that asks hard questions and goes after this idiot like the have all the others before him, will be the newspaper people want to read and not EBONY. What a freakin joke that crap is. This guy is not my president until i see his freakin birth certificate. Obama what are you trying to hide. Apparently we may have put a non-American born person in the White House and given that the country would look like a blundering fool for allowing such.
Can someone tell me why this idiot won, he never did anything before now and is doing nothing but cock-blocking serious questions from serious newspapers. You remember those new reporters we use to like before they kissed his buttocks. Well I still like them HELEN, go after this idiot hard. Who cares where you sit sweet-heart, grab this ******* by the balls and make him sweat... The dance is over, now take aim and crush this smooth talking idiot...

I know it's hard for most of you to deal with so much information, especially compared to the last 8 years.
He's now had what? 2 press conferences, at this pace he'll exceed Bush's 8 years worth in a few weeks.
Ignorance, for the last 8 years, was truly bliss for some of you.

President Obama is constantly giving interviews and making himself available to mainstream newspapers. I don't see a problem with him calling on "Stars and Stripes", and "Ebony". Veterans and minorities have as much interest in polictics as anyone else and deserve access also. NY Times and USA Today just had major interviews with him. No one is complaining about him calling on Fox News who is not seen as credible by some people either.

Next we will have BET and other black radio and tv stations covering the president. Come on, no one takes Ebony magazine serious. This is just another joke that this man has casted upon everyone who thinks he is just so diverse. The truth is this man is just another fake, whether he is a man of color or from a white background. 6 degree's of separation and we are all related. Give me a break. Real newspapers with real HARDCORE reports need to be going after this guy. You don't need to sit in the front row to see this idiot is running the White House by a hit or miss teleprompter. UMM, UMM, UMM, what happen dude, did you forget how to speak. Can you stop making side trips and talk about health care, welfare, jobs and what affects the real world us true Americans live in. Stop laughing and smiling, you are starting to show us just how fake you & your answers are becoming... Fill your cabinet seats and stop making it up as you go. Stop blaming the REP and get yourself some real people with real knowledge to assist you. No one wants to work with a dictator except for Joe Biden cause that was the only way he would ever have made it any further in congress. He is an idiot and the state of Delaware will tell you. He got boo'd in DE and went to a restaurant and the people there didn't even know who he was... Does this side show pony and rider even have a freakin clue... Neither one of these two educated idiots should be holding these seats...

The disturbing thing is that he always ducks the question about the incredible and unsustainable deficits. He just says that the Republicans started him with a deficit, but never talks about why he is _adding trillions more to it_. Why?

Well it's about time the little less known news source get to ask direct questions, opposed to them having to quote AP, UPI, NYT, Washington Post etc. Now lets see the big news sources having to quote Stars and Stripes, Ebony, Politico? etc. Bravo!!!

we don't have a POTUS (President Of The United States) we have a TOTUS (Telepromtor...). The newspapers must not have donated unough stimulus money to the Telepromtor's re-election campagine. Oops, they are all bankrupt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs
Amazing you tube video showing what the USA is headed for under Obama as the MEP of England totally blows up at the PM of England over his excessive spending of tax money, creating more and more government jobs and going deeper and deeper into debt...sound familiar? Wish this guy would come to the USA and blast Obama...though Obama is so arrogant and stupid, he wouldn't listen...just laugh and chuckle like he always does at our ecomonic problems...spend away Obama...2012 is coming and you will be sent packing back to Chicago with your man/woman wife where you belong.

Its understandable that the teleprompter-in-chief would rig the news conferecne to ensure that he didn't get any questions that he couldn't answer, or that he would look like a total fool trying to answer. This is all a game and the American people are the being played.
Why did nobody ask him why he didn't know about the AIG bonuses before he signed the stimulus bill? Did he even read the bill that he signed? Why did he break his promise to give the public five days to review it? Why did he let the Fed print $1T last week when he was feigning outrage over AIG? Why is he breaking every one of his campaign promises. So many questions left unasked, and will likely never be answered.

It's interesting that the smaller outlets asked tougher questions than the journalists from major newspapers - and Obama dodged EVERY ONE OF THEM, "responding" with prepared rhetoric to explain why Congress and his administration is justified in grabbing vast powers far beyond anything previously contained under the Tenth Amendment. Stop looking at Obama (who is obviously a poster boy), and LOOK AT THE WHAT THE GOVERNMENT IS DOING. If you think that they are doing all of this to somehow make America a better place for you, wake up now. If you approve of a democratic president levying a 90% punitive tax against a group whose behavior he doesn't like, then get ready for a neo-con Republican president to do it to environmental groups down the line. Use some common sense. They are overstepping their Tenth amendment bounds in a BIG way, which is why 30 states have bills in their houses to re-assert state sovereignty.
You think Obama is a saint for closing Gitmo? Look up Bagram, which has records of worse prisoner abuse than Gitmo by far, and is currently being expanded to double its prisoners - under the watchful eye of the Obama administration. We would be at this same place if McCain would have won the election.
There is no difference between the policies of the Bush and Obama administrations - ONLY THE WORDING; the MO is the same. I'm shocked that so-called liberal democrats are tactily defending someone who is doing exactly the same as the man who they wanted out of office - including his adminstration's defense of extraordinary rendition and wiretapping. The last eight years should have taught all of us about not questioning our politicians, and letting them run amok with legislation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs&eurl
Daniel Hannan MEP: The devalued Prime Minister of a devalued Government
When will our legislators or our media stand up and speak up for the American people?

It's interesting that one of the previous posters assumes that the correspondents from Univision and Ebony are not "hard news people". Hopefully, he or she is not saying that because Univision is a Spanish-language network, and Ebony is a long-running African-American oriented magazine.
Personally, I'm glad that President Obama opened things up to sources other than the NY Times, Washington Post, etc. I respect those outlets and read them regularly, but they don't have a sovereign right to get a question at every press conference. Opening up the field allows different perspectives of thought to come forth. One of the reasons the country is in the mess is it now is because of the narrow, tunnel-vision thinking of the previous administration.

Renee said: "Why is the republicans only talking about a stupid teleprompter?" Perhaps it's because only Republicans are willing to ask the hard questions. "Didn't Bush use one." Yes, and it was a sign of weakness for doing so. He was reading some one else's thoughts. You have failed to notice Bush supporters are few and far between among conservatives because Bush is not/was not, a conservative. Do you paint every one who disagree with you, with such a broad brush?

TO DCHERRY:
In the last 60 days, I have watched this buffoon in the White House break more promises in those days than any president I can remember. I have listened to the rhetoric, the blame game, the socialist ideas and arrogance flow from his mouth like the vomit it really is. He keeps saying his administration wasn't responsible for the "mess he inherited". But guess what? If I'm not mistaken, he was a direct player IN that inherited mess by voting for the first bailout in October, so yes, he was part of that problem! Also, they're HIS policies that are in place now, not Bush's and the markets are still sinking so his blame of Bush doesn't work anymore! Secondly, this limey jerk told all of us no more pork, no more earmarks and he just signed a stimulus package that he never even read and neither did most of congress because it was so large and they only had 3 days to read it. The next bill he signed had 8,000 earmarks in it and all he said was "those earmarks aren't the same as the other pork I was talking about" - damn hypocrite! Thirdly, he can't find anyone to complete the rest of his cabinet because NO ONE WANTS TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH HIM! Same thing with Geithner, he put a stupid tax evader in charge of the IRS who admittedly couldn't even do his taxes correctly with the Turbo Tax program he used. No one will work with Geithner either because the man is an idiot and none of these appointees even paid their taxes in the first place!! Fourthly, his socialist policies are really coming out with his new idea to possibly give Giethner even MORE power to TAKE OVER ANY FINANCIAL, INSURANCE OR BANKING INSTITUTION at any time for any reason. There goes our capitalist society and private business practices. His government wants to take it all and control everything and the idiots in Congress, save most republicans and, yes, lots of democrats now. He's also in China's back pocket at this point. They OWN us now! Now, do you really feel that in the last 60 days he's done ANYTHING good for this country? He bragged about saving the jobs of police officers and teachers. He was talking about the 54 jobs he saved on the police force in some midwestern city. 54!! This guy is dangerous! In one breath he says the sky is falling, we must pass this stimulus and NOW or it could be catastrophic! Then after its passed, he has the nerve to say "The economy isn't as bad as we think!" Not as bad???? Not as bad as we think??? This man is a LIAR! He is killing this country. We are no longer the America so many have fought and died for. Get ready for his next socialist agenda - "mandatory volunteering" or the Give Act. He's going to send you to a campus ( or camp - can you say Germay? How bout China? Korea?) to train you on how to serve your community and it will be a requirement for all students. Just wait until it spills over to the entire private sector. You'll wish you'd have kept your mouth shut. Obama needs to get out and get out NOW!

"8 years of Bush has left the Republican party and its adherents a shell of meaningless hatred with nothing inside. Just read these comments"
Posted By: songar: Using the same standard; What does this Marxist Ideologue say about you?

I can tell you EXACTLY why Obama skipped the major papers . . . Haven't they been printing some unflattering articles about him lately? It was pay-back time. He's like a child who doesn't get his way . . . Much as I hate to talk about the President of the United States like that, it is true. I was never a fan of Bill Clinton, but at least he was President. Obama doesn't have the class to be President, except in name only.

Let me just clarify that I did not mean he was going to send anyone to Germany or China or Korea but that I meant he has the same ideas that those countries utilize on a daily basis. Except Germany because we put an end to that in WWII. Those ideas are just put in different language in the bill he is trying to pass. There. I'm done now.

This fellow understands the power and innate perogatives of the "bullly pulpit" and uses both with an unusual sureness. As for "passing over" the major news organizations, I say "Bravo!" But I would give those organizations a B-minus on their questions, taken as a bunch.

Having the smartest Marxist evah, for president helps whom, exactly?
Question the sanity, of the mindset, that says we can spend our way out of every problem with money that Does. Not. Exist! I can understand this coming from the minds trust-fund babies, welfare slugs and illegal aliens, but what about the rest of you folks that are expected to pay for it? (and your children, your grand children, and their grand children and...)

For those saying Univision is not hard news, they are ignoring its DAILY 6:30P.M. newscast, which covers national and international news...right up there with your ABC, NBC, CBS programs...How do I know? I watch it and so do my parents, who better understand things in Spanish...so thanks Mr. President for being more inclusive.

Republicans have been the biggest of spenders for decades and earmarks are not exclusive to Democrats. Republicans have been spending on what is now being deemed socialism, for decades. Over the past eight years with Dubya: 2002 farm bill that increased corporate welfare for agriculture at a time of record farm profits. By signing the McCain-Feingold speech-rationing (a.k.a. "campaign reform") legislation, the president violated his oath to defend the Constitution. By federalizing the family tragedy of Terri Schiavo, the president and some congressional allies made a joke of limited government. Enacting No Child Left Behind. Don't forget the TARP money supported by Bush.
After eight years of Republican rule we saw the national debt climb by trillions and it wasn't because of the war. So what's different now?

Yeah its been two months, he should have fixed the economy, brought all the troops home and should run every press conference perfectly. I'm so sick of this guy. Why isn't he perfect after two months? You people are ridiculous

You know what, you guys are just not used to someone actually having enough intelligence to answer the questions presented to him in a clear and honest fashion. I still say the masses have been dumbed down by the past administration and refuse to think or engage in clear concise information. Wake up people, you've been sleep too long.

I thought it was nice that he opened up the questions to media outlets that wouldn't ordinarily get to ask a question.
And as far as the newspapers. Obama placed an op-ed in many newspapers across the country the day before so I would say he is spreading the love around.
JS

"what about Jim Clancy last night on CNN talking about exacting a POUND of flesh? antisemitic anyone?" Really? How is that anti-semitic? Because Shylock was Jewish? Clearly that makes the most sense. It couldn't has been a literary reference to a great work about paying a debt. No, of course not. Clearly this is the leader of the Fouth Reich.

When did site become filled with vapid, whiny wastes of humane existence that can only talk about teleprompters? Most importantly, why are these people even relevant to ANY discussion? Obama is the POTUS and these people are crapping in their pants everyday crying about how "inexperienced" and "rude" and "arrogant" he is. He's going to be here for at least 4 years. Better get some balls and deal with it or you folks will send yourselves to the pysch ward faster than you know it.

And another thing. I see it more often in Obama supporters than in his naysayers but that's neither here nor there. Some of you really need to run a spelling and grammar check on your comments. No matter what you're saying, if you look stupid saying it you lose all credibility and your point will be lose. Please, for the good of the American people, learn proper English.

Wow. Once again I'm reminded that although the internet levels the playing field for getting your voice heard, it also brings out the wingnuts and the people who are convinced that they are smart and clever when they're not.
So much hate and vitriol. You should run for office and find out just how many people think you're absurd. Please. You need some reality to seep into your noggins. Your thought processes have gone terribly wrong. You don't understand how things work.

I don't typically post on comment sections because of the amazing degree of insanity vs rationality. But this is just too hysterical to ignore. Most of you people are seriously off your rockers. You live in an alternate, parallel reality where Barack Obama is somehow "Stalin-Hitler" (do you REALIZE how dumb it is to call someone a fascist and commie/socialist at the same time?). Now, I think a rational political debate is healthy for America. Criticize Obama's economic policy, but if you do not understand macroeconomics, then don't make stuff up. Do your reading and studying before you post this chicken-little scare-mongering nonsense. The federal government is not like your household. What makes sense for your household makes absolutely no sense for the federal government! Also, the "birth certificate" "omg he's a liar" crowd needs to go divert their completely irrational paranoia to a traditional conspiracy theory like Area 51, because this kind of banter has no place in our politics. Conservatives, we NEED you in this country, we NEED your voices. To those intelligent enough to have a rational discussion about policy, please silence your psychotic irrational fringe cousins. They are not helping you and they are not helping America.

I guess this is important to all you people who can beat Obama at bowling in the Special Oplympics, but wasn't he hammered for not calling on Fox before? So really, there is no way to make you 'tards happy.

It's about time. And that may be why The New York Times characterized Obama acting as a college professor addressing a class "waiting for the bell to ring." Load of crap. That's what the American people need -- repeated explanations of what their government is doing and why. The Times reporters merely were ****ed that the Times didn't get called on. Typical crybaby reaction from the most arrogant newspaper in the country.

To Jen from Texas: pretty obvious that your jen bush....use an alias when trying to make your daddy look better! And to the rest of You obama bashers: where in hard times now, thanks to both parties. Try and think a bit more objectively, your bashing shows that your scared and don't have any Better ideas for this county. Get a life, or run for office!

It is again obvious Obama could not run a NY hot dog stand. I even doubt he can coach a basketball team. He did not answer the about vetoing the bill if 'cap and trade' was not included. Of course, we know the answer to the most dangerous president to occupy the office. He is bent on reducing this country to third world status.

RROSS - You should be able to find your incorrect use of the word lose. You first sentence is a fragment. You're also missing punctuation in a couple places. Also, if something is "neither here nor there" then why mention it? Hey, you started it.

With each day that passes I'm reminded why I didn't vote for Obama and feel disgust for the gullible masses that did. Hopefully the next 4 years will pass quickly with minimal damage so we can elect a real leader and get rid of this teleprompter puppet that is spending our country into bankruptcy.

To Center Left your comment on this blog is refreshing! It would be nice if most of the hate filled bloggers would offer some constructive solutions of how they can help out their beloved country. But..

If Ron Paul would have won, we would have been enjoying prosperity as the criminal bankers were all put on trial as the rest of the world goes to crap.
Change you can believe in... just like the easter bunny and santa claus.

Okay, I understand letting alternative outlets get to ask questions., but Ebony? I apologize to those that read the magazine, but it isn't the scrutinizing, critical watchdog of the public good that true media (as opposed to entertainment) is supposed to be. The WSJ has written far better analyses on Obama's Keynesian strategy than Ebony.
And yes Flaming, I have heard of Keynes. His ideas led to higher taxes and unemployment to pay for hole-filling in the GD (unemployment hit 25% five years into the Keynesian nightmare). A better solution would have been to lower interest rates and avoid protectionism, letting the market work itself out via LESS intervention, cracking down on margins in the stock market, and stop having govt tampering with the money supply. Instead we did the opposite and only the need for war materials and foodstuffs by the Allies saved us. Hurrah New Deal!

What's with the teleprompter slams?
You all do know that Dubya used one, clinton used one, Reagan used one, McCain used one, Palin used one, and all the talking heads on Fox News that are slamming Pres. Obama for using one are reading their remarks off of, surprise, a teleprompter.
Christ, is that all you wingnuts got?

Mike,
I am a publisher of a small publication. Where have you been? No one reads those papers anymore. Metro dailies have let America down. It is about time that a president has recognized other media outlets and small publications. Grass roots America could care less about the NY Times or Washington Post.